Crowd-test before you invest
CrowdChallenges combine innovation contests with the crowd that cares — sponsors lay out a problem, innovators compete to solve it, and a hybrid panel of experts and the crowd surfaces the winners.
How CrowdChallenges work
Apply
Innovators submit their solutions to the challenge's sponsored tracks.
Crowd review
Patients, providers, investors, and advisors review entries and weigh in — a real market test, not a popularity contest.
Win
Finalists pitch live; winners earn funding, pilots, and partnerships with the sponsoring institutions.
For sponsors
MedStartr has run 120 contests and 60 challenges since 2010 — a decade-plus of putting healthcare innovators in front of the crowd that cares.
Source aligned innovation on demand
Define the problem your organization needs solved and let the world's healthcare innovators come to you.
Crowd-test before you invest
See real engagement from patients, clinicians, and partners before committing — de-risk the bet.
Drive awareness
Put your brand at the center of the healthcare innovation community for the length of the challenge.
We built a physician innovation network for one of the largest national medical associations
A white-labeled CrowdChallenge that established one of the largest national medical associations as a leader in physician-led innovation — finding, funding, and accelerating the best physician-led startups.
The MedStartr Venture Fund invested in the winning company — the second exit from our second fund.
You define the goals. We bring the crowds.
Drive healthcare innovation for your organization, community, company, or area of interest by sponsoring a MedStartr CrowdChallenge and Healthcare Innovation Community.
Get StartedChallenges
New Orleans Healthcare Innovators Challenge
SampleNew Orleans' leading healthcare institutions seek digital health solutions for the city's most critical healthcare needs.
2026 Grand Challenge
Get found and funded faster — pitch your healthcare innovation to the crowd that cares.
You define the goals. We bring the crowds.
Drive healthcare innovation for your organization, community, company, or area of interest by sponsoring a MedStartr CrowdChallenge and Healthcare Innovation Community.
Get Started